Lol remember when the first english colonists were in America? The whole cannablism to survive bit? Have fun being marooned in a giant desert to die in a space suit, never feeling the wind or sun on your naked face ever again.

I think we should build three great spaceships. The idea was that into the first ship, the 'A' ship, would go all the brilliant leaders, the scientists, the great artists, you know, all the achievers; and into the third, or 'C' ship, would go all the people who did the actual work, who made things and did things, and then into the `B' ship would go everyone else, the middlemen you see."

BraveNewCheneyWorld:I'm sure there are much more pleasant ways to commit suicide than stranding yourself on a barren rock.

There is no appreciable iron core in Mars, thus no magnetic field, thus no van Allen belts to deflect solar wind/radiation. There's no ozone layer to filter UV either -- the atmosphere is actually shrinking due to the solar win stripping it away.

Meh.

Send terminal cancer patients because the young and healthy will be cut short.

This whole Mars One project reeks of a giant scam... they will never leave the stratosphere at all and after raking in enough cash those responsible will disappear. Their original intentions may have been good though.

A manned mission to Mars by a private company in 10 years' time when they haven't even designed, much less launched, a communications satellite? To say nothing of designing, building, launching and landing a fleet of hab modules? This ain't happening. But I'm sure they'll be happy to take your money

Baron Harkonnen:A manned mission to Mars by a private company in 10 years' time when they haven't even designed, much less launched, a communications satellite? To say nothing of designing, building, launching and landing a fleet of hab modules? This ain't happening. But I'm sure they'll be happy to take your money

Uh yeah, but computers are better and Columbus and the Wright Brothers and stuff, dude. Argue against THAT.

berylman:This whole Mars One project reeks of a giant scam... they will never leave the stratosphere at all and after raking in enough cash those responsible will disappear. Their original intentions may have been good though.

berylman:This whole Mars One project reeks of a giant scam... they will never leave the stratosphere at all and after raking in enough cash those responsible will disappear. Their original intentions may have been good though.

I'm throwing my hat in the ring with this person.

There are no details, the timelines are bunk, there have been no successful, long term studies on the type of life they would be living...

Step 1 2016 - Send supplies - Where? How? You sent food and supplies for people not arriving until 2023? Yum.Step 2 2018 - Send rover to find best location - Really? So randomly drop the supplies on the planet and THEN look for where you'll be? Good luck dragging all those supplies around.Step 3 2021 - Living units arrive. Great. How are they getting setup and ready, exactly? Everything should be pre-setup for them by then? Have we experimented with construction on an alien planet before? How is it getting setup, exactly?

And so on...no details.

Plus, this is a Dutch company and there aren't any slavery laws on Mars yet. You remember what happened the last time the Dutch colonized a new country...

FrancoFile:berylman: This whole Mars One project reeks of a giant scam... they will never leave the stratosphere at all and after raking in enough cash those responsible will disappear. Their original intentions may have been good though.

But-but-but-but they'll finance it with a reality TV show!

It'll be like other reality tv shows, except they never get to leave the cramped confession room.

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